Watch the moment a star explodes in a supernova — something scientists have never directly witnessed like this before. The ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers ...

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It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole—that was so ...

Astronomers reveal new insight into an iconic supernova remnant's evolution, structure and pulsar-driven growth over 25 years ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

A supernova witnessed nearly 2,000 years ago is back in focus as NASA’s powerful X-ray telescope uncovers a hidden cosmic ...